USA TODAY chronicled 24 hours in the emergency room at the UVA Medical Center, a teaching hospital and trauma center that serves patients across a swath of central Virginia. Patients and their families, doctors and nurses, helicopter pilots and ER housekeepers spoke about their experiences with health care and their views on changing the system. Their experiences and observations underscore why changing the health care system has proved so hard for presidents and policymakers: the complexity of the system, the pressure from chronic diseases, the shortfall in preventive care, the high costs, the competing demands and the life-or-death stakes.

Scott Rolen and Rod Barajas each had two RBIs, right-hander Casey Janssen won for the first time in more than two years and the Toronto Blue Jays snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 6-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.

Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited for loose bricks and cracks collapsed in Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving a mound of rubble but apparently causing no injuries.